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A Museum Has Located a Missing Figure That Was Cut Out of This 17th-Century Family Portrait
A rare reunion has taken place at the Nivaagaard Collection in Denmark, as the museum has located the image of a woman, who, for nearly 200 years, has been missing from a 17th-century family portrait. Double Portrait of a Father and Son (1626), painted by Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos in luminous color, sees a […]
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Did Vermeer Have a Daughter Who Painted Some of His Most Famous Portraits? This Art Historian Thinks So
For centuries, art lovers have wondered at the identity of the sitters in Vermeer’s beloved masterpieces. To the shock of many scholars, one expert has suggested that Girl with a Red Hat (c. 1669) may in fact be a self-portrait by the artist’s daughter Maria. Furthermore, she could be responsible for several of the Dutch […]
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A Series of Norman Rockwell Illustrations That Once Hung in the White House Is at the Center of a Legal Battle Between Family Members
Was the White House used to steal a series of Norman Rockwell illustrations? That’s the central contention of a knotty new lawsuit, which alleges that the descendants of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s longtime press secretary lent a series of four Rockwells to the White House in an effort to conceal ownership of the artworks, according to […]
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A Wall Street Billionaire Shot Himself in His Family Office. His Death Is Reverberating in the Museum World, and the Art Market
In happier times, prominent friends would gather at the chic Sutton Place home of the billionaire museum trustees Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum to celebrate their favorite causes amid paintings by 20th-century giants and electrifying works by living artists. A curved staircase, meanwhile, beckoned to ever higher realms above the bustle of Manhattan. This […]
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Three Members of an Infamous German Crime Family Have Confessed to Participating in the Green Vault Heist
Three members of a prominent German crime syndicate have admitted to playing parts in the historic Green Vault heist. The confessions came in a regional court in Dresden, where six suspects are on trial for their alleged participation in the night-time theft of $123 million worth of jewels from the city’s Grünes Gewölbe—or Green Vault—museum […]